Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first luncheon-meeting of the Round Table, organized by the National Civic Federation, executives and working men ate side by side in the Roosevelt, new Manhattan hotel. "Eliminate Waste-Minimize Controversy," was the catchword. The speakers: Herbert Hoover; William Green, who succeeded the late Samuel Gompers as President of the American Federation of Labor (TIME, Dec. 29) ; Gerard Swope, President of the General Electric Co. (TIME, Feb. 23, BUSINESS) ; D. L. Cease, of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Marcus M. Marks, veteran clothing-merchant and labor-arbiter...
...what happens to a girl when she gets careless. That's how they pronounce it in the Carolina mountains. This particular girl was careless enough to get herself kissed on the lips by a vagrant Northern millionaire. Thereupon, the simple village menfolk consider her disgraced and rally round to marry her and reinsure her honor. Shotguns and tar are meted out to the unhappy Northerner. A rope is around his neck when the lady, having kissed, decides to tell...
...tournament was in the form of a round robin, with 1S entries. Cups will be awarded the winners of first and second places...
...beginning of each year we acquaint the workers with the general field of our work at a round table dinner. These experts tell the amateurs what they are to expect. We have several such dinners later in the fall, smaller and less general in their description of the work...
...monthly intervals to make suggestions for new programs, assist in difficult situations and reassign men obviously misplaced. The vital importance of this individual work cannot be too heavily stressed. It will be supplemented in occasional general meetings of volunteers to hear visiting speakers and to engage in organized round table discussion...